| The acting matron, who's worked at Lynwood for 19 years, says residents enjoy full social lives. |
| The matron, who was in charge of us, was a formidable figure and you didn't want to get in her bad books. |
| It fastened down the back, and matron had to lace me into it for each performance. |
| She has progressed to staff nurse and then to sister and as a matron enjoys being able to develop skills in areas that most interested her. |
| With the exception of a saintly matron, called Mama Sunshine, who collects waifs and strays, grown-ups are not to be trusted. |
| A placenta or afterbirth is attached to the wall of the uterus and is the source of food and oxygen for the puppy inside the matron. |
